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YSU plans Natural Gas and Water Resources Institute
Youngstown State University plans a Natural Gas and Water Resources Institute as part of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
LIVE: Coverage of today's Chamber event on fracking
Police arrested seven protesters today after they blocked trucks from entering and leaving a D&L Energy well site on Ohio Works Drive. The protest took place while thousands took part in the Youngstown Ohio Utica and Natural Gas conference and expo at the Covelli Centre.
Group remains conservative to oil, gas industry
Television ads and talking heads spew the virtues of shale drilling across America, but at least one group remains conservative to the booming oil-and-gas industry — research analysts.
Hagan backs drilling halt
The Mahoning Valley’s latest earthquake — a magnitude 2.1 early Friday — wasn’t significant enough to shake many area homes, but it was apparently big enough to rattle state Rep. Robert F. Hagan all the way in New York.
Youngstown reflects revival of the Rust Belt
A rare sight in hard-luck Youngstown, a new industrial plant, has generated hope that a surge in oil and natural-gas drilling across a multistate region might jump-start a revival in Rust Belt manufacturing.
Some Mahoning County residents embrace return to drilling
Milton Township Trustee Harold Campbell stands in front of a natural gas Clinton Sandstone drill pump. Clinton drilling picked up in the 1970s, but now oil and gas companies want to drill deeper. Campbell said the drilling boom could bring economic prosperity to the township.
Vindy.com to launch fracking page; chamber to host shale conference
The Vindicator will launch its new fracking page this week on Vindy.com. It will act as a source for everything related to the Utica and Marcellus shale drilling industries.
Another quake hits area near D&L well in Youngstown
Despite the state’s insistence that a brine injection well on Ohio Works Drive, off Salt Springs Road, isn’t the reason for seven earthquakes that have occurred in Youngstown since March, another was recorded at 1:47 a.m. Friday in the same area.
ODNR rejects linking well to Mahoning Valley quakes
State environmental regulators are relatively sure that a brine-injection well in Youngstown hasn’t been the source of six Mahoning Valley earthquakes this year.
Brine injection wells mean money for Ohio
Brine injection wells mean money for Ohio COLUMBUS Ohio has made $1 million off brine injection
ODNR expert hears Coitsville’s concerns over well
Injection wells are cement-and-steel-cased. There are currently 17 injection wells in development or already in place in Mahoning and Trumbull counties, including one in Youngstown.
Source: Ellsworth Twp. drilling site planned
The Vindicator has learned a Utica Shale drilling well is planned within Ellsworth Township limits.
Environmentalists: Ohio’s rules on fracking fall short
Proposed new regulations on gas and oil drilling in the state would be some of the toughest in the nation if adopted, but environmentalists and local officials complain they don’t go far enough, especially in protecting public health.
Thinking beyond the need to drill
Opinion: Thinking beyond the need to drill It appears that the Marcel- las and Utica Shale drilling rush is
Valley drilling on the move
Oil-drilling derricks such as this one, outside Carrollton in Carroll County, could soon start appearing throughout the Mahoning Valley, based on an uptick in signed leases, especially in southeast Mahoning County. The boom in such leases has begun to spread to western townships.
Before signing with broker, get facts
Before nearly 100,000 acres of land was leased earlier this year for oil- and gas-drilling purposes, landowners in southern Mahoning Valley negotiated with as many as 10 entities.
YOUNG shale expo is 10 days away
The Youngstown/ Warren Regional Chamber’s first-of-its-kind Utica Shale conference and trade show is quickly approaching. The Youngstown Ohio Utica & Natural Gas business-to-business conference, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at the Covelli Centre, will feature national and local companies and their products and expertise regarding the Utica and Marcellus Shale supply chain.
Ohio treasurer calls on Brown to support fracking
Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, a Republican likely running for the U.S. Senate next year, says he supports a “responsible but aggressive” policy on fracking.
Protest planned at Youngstown shale conference
Fracking Exposed: A State of Emergency, will protest Nov. 30 at the Covelli Centre at the same time as the YOUNG 2011 Utica and Marcellus Shale Conference and Expo.